A bot farm involving hundreds of servers and over 570,000 different IP addresses has caused losses for online video advertisers ranging from $3 to $5 million per day. This botRead More →
Apparently, frustrated users complain more often recently on various forums about their embedded devices being overloaded with computing and network tasks. What these particular posts have in common is theRead More →
Administrators of the Ethereum Project have announced today a data breach that affected over 16,500 users of the platform’s community forums. Ethereum is the name of the platform on whichRead More →
According to statements from Ukrenergo, a Ukrainian energy provider, a cyber-attack may have caused a power outage in northern Ukraine, almost a year after another cyber-attack had shut down powerRead More →
BY NOW IT’S hard to keep track of which companies have been hacked and which haven’t. Remember the FourSquare hack? What about Adobe? Even breaches that were high-profile at theRead More →
The team at Cybereason released today a new tool that tries to help users stay safe from ransomware infections. Named RansomFree, this application can help users of Windows 7, 8Read More →
As many of you who follow me on twitter will know, I’m a big fan of the Bettercap project. Created by @EvilSocket, this tool is a reimagining of the historicRead More →
The current generation of Android banking trojans are all equipped with ransomware-like features in order to lock the user’s device, and in some cases encrypt his data. Despite possessing suchRead More →
Cryptolulz666 announced another data breach, he hacked the database of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, the second of the country. Just after 24 hours of the hack of theRead More →
The FBI arrested this past week Sean Krishanmakoto Sharma, 26, from La Canada, California, for launching DDoS attacks against Chatango, an online chat service. According to court documents, Sharma, whoRead More →
